Xuejiao Zhao

About me

Hi there, I am Xuejiao Zhao (赵雪娇). Currently, I am a tenure-track professor and a PhD supervisor at the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University (SCU). Prior to joining SCU, I held the prestigious Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPF) at the LILY Research Centre, College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, working with Prof. Chunyan Miao. I spent the first year of my PPF in RPL, KTH Royal Institute of Technology working with Prof. Danica Kragic.

I obtained my PhD in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at NTU, Singapore. I'm honored to be supervised by Prof. Chunyan Miao and Prof. Zhenchang Xing.

My research interests are AI for Healthcare, Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs, and Human-Computer Interaction.

News

• [2026/07]   I am invited to be a keynote speaker of ARIAL@IJCAI'26. See you at IJCAI'26 in Bremen!
  
• [2026/07]   2 papers of our team are accepted to Knowledge-Based Systems. Congratulations!
  
• [2026/06]   I will give an invited talk and participate in the panel discussion at the ICCSE'26. See you in Xinjiang!
  
• [2026/06]   Honored to be invited to serve as a Summer Internship Supervisor for the Turing AI Scholars Programme (TAISP).
  
• [2026/02]   I am invited to serve as an Area Chair of the KDD 2026.
  
• [2025/12]   The EHRStruct 2026 - LLM Structured EHR Challenge is launched on Codabench. 💪 Come to take the challenge！
  
• [2025/12]   I will be the moderator of fireside chat at GYSS'26, see u at the Stephan Riady Centre of NUS!
  
• [2025/11]   2 papers are accepted to AAAI'26, both selected for Oral presentations!
  
• [2025/09]   We are hosting the 1st AIAA workshop, conjunction with AAAI2026, now calling for papers!
  
• [2025/09]   1 paper is accepted to Neural Networks!
  
• [2025/06]   Our intern student, Yiyang Zhao, has received a fully funded PhD offer from FDU. Congratulations!
  
• [2025/05]   We are hosting the BioFM workshop, conjunction with ICDM2025, now calling for papers!
  
• [2025/04]   1 paper is accepted to IJCAI'25 Demo Track!
  
• [2025/04]   I am invited to be a speaker of WWW'25 workshop MORE.
  
• [2025/03]   Our RA, Siyan Liu, has received a fully funded PhD offer from UBC. Congratulations!
  
• [2025/02]   Honored to be an invited speaker at the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Seminar (Details)!
  

Selected Publications [Google Scholar] [BIB List]

GEM: Generative Entropy-Guided Preference Modeling for Few-shot Alignment of LLMs Yiyang Zhao, Huiyu Bai, Xuejiao Zhao† († Corresponding author) The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2026 (Oral) [Paperlink] [Code] [OralVideo] [Poster] [Extension] [News_AIEra]

EHRStruct: A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models on Structured Electronic Health Record Tasks Xiao Yang, Xuejiao Zhao†, Zhiqi Shen († Corresponding author) The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2026 (Oral) [Paperlink] [Code] [OralVideo] [Poster] [Challenge] [News_AIEra] [Project Page]

MedRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-augmented Generation with Knowledge Graph-Elicited Reasoning for Healthcare Copilot Xuejiao Zhao*, Siyan Liu*, Su-Yin Yang, Chunyan Miao† (* Co-first author, † Corresponding author) The 2025 ACM Web Conference, WWW 2025 [Paperlink] [Code] [Poster] [RedNote] [News_AIEra] [Demo_en] [Demo_ch]

A Smart Multimodal Healthcare Copilot with Powerful LLM Reasoning Xuejiao Zhao*, Siyan Liu*, Su-Yin Yang, Chunyan Miao† (* Co-first author, † Corresponding author) The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2025 [Paperlink] [Code] [Poster] [Demo_en] [Demo_ch] [DoctorEval]

Brain-inspired Search Engine Assistant based on Knowledge Graph Xuejiao Zhao, Huanhuan Chen, Zhenchang Xing, Chunyan Miao IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, TNNLS [IF 14.26] [Paperlink]

Heterogeneous Star Graph Attention Network for Product Attributes Prediction Xuejiao Zhao, Yong Liu, Yonghui Xu, Yonghua Yang, Xusheng Luo, Chunyan Miao Advanced Engineering Informatics, AEI [IF 9.9] [Paperlink] [Code] [Dataset]

A Generalizable Anomaly Detection Method in Dynamic Graphs Xiao Yang, Xuejiao Zhao†, Zhiqi Shen† († Corresponding author) The Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2025 [Paperlink] [Code] [Poster] [JiQiZhiXin] [AITimeVideo]

	Data Collection, Data Mining and Transfer of Learning based on Customer Temperament-centered Complaint Handling System and One-of-a-kind Complaint Handling Dataset Ching-Hung Lee*, Xuejiao Zhao*† (* Co-first author, † Corresponding author) Advanced Engineering Informatics, AEI [IF 9.9] [Paperlink], [Dataset]

A unified gradient regularization method for heterogeneous graph neural networks Xiao Yang, Xuejiao Zhao†, Zhiqi Shen († Corresponding author) Neural Networks [IF 6.3] [Paperlink] [Code]

Gamified Rehabilitation for Pain Distraction in Total-Knee-Replacement Patients Xuejiao Zhao, Qiong Wu, X. Jessie Yang, Yang Qiu, Huiguo Zhang, Chunyan Miao CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 [Paperlink]

A Smart Context-aware Program Assistant based on Dynamic Programming Event Modeling Xuejiao Zhao, Hongwei Li, Yutian Tang, Dongjing Gao, Lingfeng Bao, Ching-Hung Lee The 29th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2018 [Best Industry Paper (2%)] [Paperlink]

Improving API Caveats Accessibility by Mining API Caveats Knowledge Graph Hongwei Li, Sirui Li, Jiamou Sun, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Peng, Mingwei Liu, Xuejiao Zhao The 34th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2018 [IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award (2%) [Paperlink]

HDSKG: Harvesting domain-specific knowledge graph from the content of webpages Xuejiao Zhao, Zhenchang Xing, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Naoya Sawada, Jing Li, Shang-Wei Lin IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2017 [Paperlink]

A Survey of Artificial Intelligence in Gait-Based Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis Haocong Rao, Minlin Zeng, Xuejiao Zhao, Chunyan Miao Neurocomputing 2025 [IF 6.5] [Paperlink] [Resource]

Editorial of Special Issue on AI for Health and Ageless Aging Xuejiao Zhao International Journal of Crowd Science, IJCS [Paperlink]

LM2D: Lyrics- and Music-Driven Dance Synthesis Wenjie Yin, Xuejiao Zhao*, Yi Yu, Hang Yin, Danica Kragic, Marten Bjorkman (* Co-first author) Arxiv [Paperlink] [VIDEO]

A Survey of Smart Healthcare for the Elderly based on User Requirements and Supply Accessibility Ching-Hung Lee, Zehao Zhang, Xuejiao Zhao† († Corresponding author) The 5th International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering, ICCSE 2021 [Paperlink]

Cheating Your Apps: Black-box Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Apps Hongchen Cao, Shuai Li, Yuming Zhou, Ming Fan, Xuejiao Zhao, Yutian Tang Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, JSEP [Paperlink]

Service Quality Driven Approach for Innovative Retail Service System Design and Evaluation: A Case Study Ching-Hung Lee, Xuejiao Zhao, Yu-Chi LEE Journal of Computers & Industrial Engineering, CAIE [Paperlink]

A comprehensive exploration to the machine learning techniques for diabetes identification Sidong Wei, Xuejiao Zhao, Chunyan Miao IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things, WF-IoT 2018 [Paperlink]

Developing a Quick Response Product Configuration System under Industry 4.0 Based on Customer Requirement Modelling and Optimization Method Ching-Hung Lee Chun-Hsien Chen, Chenyu Lin, Fan Li, Xuejiao Zhao Journal of Applied Sciences [Paperlink]

Invited Talks and Showcases

Professional Services

Selected Fundings

Selected Honors & Scholarships

Supervised & Co-Supervised Students

Leadership Experiences

CSS Club for Lixin Tang Elite Student Scholarship (UESTC and Singapore Region) President Organized academic forums, workshops, and gatherings more than 30 times (e.g., Future Technology Exploration Forum, Golf Workshop, etc). Participated in and assisted with organizing overseas study tours 6 times (fully funded by Lixin Tang Scholarship), visited more than 15 countries and 6 universities (including Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford). One of the casual meeting was reported by French newspaper FranceQW. [Press Coverage]

Association for Science and Technology of AA of UESTC Technical Committee Member Assisted in organizing more than two electronic design competitions. Served as a Jury Member of electronic design competitions more than 2 times.

Talents

Dance Serving as a member of a dance group called "BingTangXueLi" (or "Dr X"), this groups has been invited to perform more than 6 times (e.g., Chinese New Year Gala 2024-Singapore, TEDx-NTU, etc.). Follow us on Xiaohongshu - "bingtangxl_ntu". As a dancer of Chinese Dance Club of NTU, participated in more than 5 concerts (e.g., JDC, NTU Lunar New Year Celebration Concert). Created the Dance & Painting show called "Lan Yu Jing Hong" for the National Day Art Exhibition, and was honored by the Minister Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim with a certificate of appreciation.

Chinese Painting Jointly held a painting exhibition that attracted more than 500 visitors, and was reported by Lianhe Zaobao. [Press Coverage] A Painting named "Da Fo Lin Xia" was collected by the Chinese Heritage Centre. Invited to paint at Prime Minister - Lee Hsien Loong’s Chinese New Year Garden Party.